Favourite One-Off Side Quest?

You know how there are all those sprawling four hour questlines, filled with sometimes alright storylines, alright voice-acting, and alright pretty much everything? They don't count. Neither do things like 'No One escapes Cidhna Mine' because it's a leadon from the 'Forsworn Conspriacy' My Favourite One-Off Side Quest is Rise in the East. It's absolutely F***ING AWESOME. Even the name is awesome! What starts out as a fetch mission becomes a beachfront assault on an island fortress with exploding arrow rain! What's cooler than that?

It's from ESO, not Skyrim, but "The Flower of Youth" is among the most beautiful quests I've seen in Elder Scrolls. An old Wood Elf's husband is dying, and the mer asks you to gather some flowers for them. You gather the flowers, and come back, only to learn the husband has already passed away. The Wood Elf calmly realizes they never needed the flowers; the husband was happy enough being together with him at the end. The quest offers zero combat and minimal XP, yet it stuck with me because it's really a heartwarming story.

"The Blessing of Nature" and "Kyne's Sacred Trials" are the ones I love because they are nature related. I always do the Blessing of Nature because that tree must bloom! Though, I haven't done the second one in a long time.

I really like the Ansilvund quest. It's a medium length dungeon with a nice love story going on and the antagonist of the dungeon is a pretty awesome character. The quest is great for any witch hunter og demon hunter type character and even offers the dragon The Ghostblade sword at the end; armor ignoring and badass looking. All in all I would give this dungeon 5/5 stars!

- Which gives me a cool idea! I should start making dungeon guides "BlueDremoras tour of Skyrims Dungeons", yep.

A Night to Remember because it's a lighthearted, humorous quest amidst so many dark, serious quests found in Skyrim. I also like the surprise ending when the true identity of the quest giver is revealed. Of course, the quest reward is quite useful too.

I knda like Waking Nightmare. It's just weird and trippy and makes you make a decision at the end. I've never really played with the skull of corruption, but taking on Erandur has provided some good companionship on a few walkthroughs. And access to Heljarchen Hall is quite nice.

idk there are so many... "A love byond death" was a great call Blue Dremora...

Oh Caladran! I too love restoring the Gildergreen. My only prob with that quest is killing the spriggans....seems wrong

I tend to just escape instead of staying and killing them. xD

I preferred not to kill anyone or anything but instead agreed to let Maurice pray to Kynareth at the Eldergleam tree. This also prevented the inhabitants of the cave from being attacked and probably being killed by the spriggans. While the Gildergleam itself isn't restored, a blooming sapling from the Eldergleam tree can be planted in its place. Not the ideal solution for everyone but it was the best choice for my character who chose to complete the quest without resorting to violence.

My favorite is Lights Out. Getting revenge for the double cross always brings a smile to my face and the grotto you explore is awesome! And if you do this quest as an Argonian, there are so many opportunies to sneak up on people using you ability to breath underwater it actually makes this racial ability pretty cool.

I don't know what I've been pkaying at these past 6 years, but I don't think I've ever even started Rise in the East. I remember reading about it in the big guide book I got with the game and thinking it sounded awesome, but I've never got round to actually doing it.

Blood on the Ice is a tempting choice for me, it's a pretty great quest and different to the standard side mission, but I'm actually gonna second Shin with the Potema quests. Like he said, being the unsung hero, and the game reinforcing that, makes you feel so much more badass.

Do Daedric Quests count? If so...still probably the Windhelm Butcher quest or Frostflow Abyss. Frostflow because that story kinda broke my heart, and Butcher because the first time I did it I thought the court wizard was actually responsible because of glitch...Then found out later while looking at Amulet of Necromancy that the real story is so much better. IDK.